BfB’s Environmental Education Program educates and engages students in Indonesia and Australia in addressing 6 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, the United Nations approved a new agenda for the next 15 years called ‘Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’.
​The new agenda was created through a negotiation processwith countries around the world and built on the previous Millennium Development Goals. The SDGs apply to all counties. They are designed to clarify how we develop over the next 15 years, with priorities for ending poverty and protecting the planet.
​Through Bottle for Botol, students actively participate in furthering 13 of the 169 targets created to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

Which of the SDG's and targets does the Bottle for Botol team, teachers and students participate in?
​​Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages

Target 9: By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination

Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning

Target 7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development

Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

Target 1: By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all

Target 8: Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Target 4By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

Target 8: By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources

Target 1: By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution

Target 2: By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans

Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Target: Capacity building

Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

Target: Multi-stakeholder partnerships

Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

Target: Multi-stakeholder partnerships

Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships